A. Ekanayake Gunasinha

Alexander Ekanayake Gunasinha was a pioneering trade union leader known as the Father of the Labour Movement in Sri Lanka. He was the founder of the Ceylon Labour Party, Sri Lankas first labour organisation and former Mayor of Colombo. A. E. Gunasinha also served as the Minister without portfolio, Minister of State and Chief Government Whip in the First Parliament of Sri Lanka . He was an alumnus of Dharmaraja College, Kandy and St. Josephs College, Colombo.

A. E. Gunasinha was bornMay 1891 in Kandy as the son of a tea estate Superintendent George Ekanayake Gunasinha. He first attended Dharmaraja College and completed his education at St. Josephs College, Colombo. Upon graduation, he sought employment as a clerk in the Sri Lankan railway department but later turned his attention to journalism.

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